drizzle
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdɹɪz.l/
drizzle (drizzles, present participle drizzling; past and past participle drizzled)
- (impersonal) To rain lightly.
- We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day.
- (ambitransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London, Januarye, Aegloga prima,
- And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,
- As on your boughes the ysicles depend.
- circa 1594 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 5,
- When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;
- But for the sunset of my brother’s son
- It rains downright.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London, Januarye, Aegloga prima,
- (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
- The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.
- (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.
- The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.
- (slang) To urinate.
- (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.
- French: bruiner, pleuvioter, grainasser (Louisiana)
- German: nieseln
- Italian: piovigginare
- Portuguese: chuviscar garoar
- Russian: мороси́ть
- Spanish: lloviznar, chispear, estar pringando (Mex)
- Spanish: mear
drizzle
- Light rain.
- (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
- No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle.
- (slang) Water.
- Stop drinking all of my drizzle!
- (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
- Drizzle is not normally good news. Not when it's falling from the sky, not when it's replacing a decent helping of sauce, and especially not when it's found on a menu in close proximity to the words "balsamic vinegar". Deliciously sticky, sweet and sour lemon drizzle cake is the one, and very honourable, exception.
- French: bruine, crachin, grainasse (Louisiana)
- German: Nieselregen, Sprühregen
- Italian: pioggerella, pioviggine
- Portuguese: chuvisco, garoa, caruja (regional)
- Russian: ме́лкий дождь
- Spanish: llovizna, (Eastern Bolivia) chilchi, (Costa Rica) cilampa, (Argentina) garúa, (Dominican Republic) jarina, (Spanish Basque Country) sirimiri
- German: Nieselregen, Sprühregen
- Russian: и́зморось
- French: flotte
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